Topic: Do You Believe That Reading People's Bad Experience Will Help You - page 2. (Read 541 times)

There might be a different views with regards to this and yes every gambler have their own perception to others experience. Personally, I learn a lot from other people’s success story or even with their bad experiences since that could be a warning for me not to do the same thing or else I’ll end up into a wrong situation too. If you will see that bad experience as your green signal on what to do, the better but of course having your own strategy is still way better especially on dealing with those problems.

Well, if reading about other gamblers bad experiences would help other gamblers, then it must be a new gambler who has not yet been gambling. If it's a new gambler, they will definitely read and learn and will not want to fall into the same situation that has been the mistake of other gamblers. For example, there was a story of a college student who gambled off a huge amount that didn't belong to them and lost that bet. Because he could not bear the loss, he went and committed suicide. There was another case too where the woman and her son duped someone off their money and used it to gamble, but at the end, both of them were sentenced to prison. If a newbie gambler reads some of those stories, they will want to gamble with self-control so as not to be victims of such situations.

Every writer must have a storyline to speak on, else, what's the point of the great stories and writings we have read or had the opportunity of reading currently.  This forum had helped people read more and understand what BTC and the idea of crypto is as well as the ills associated with gambling.
 Am more confident because of the sorry and sad tales and it has helped also to narrow the focus and know what works both for gambling, mixing, trading, investment, Blockchain, crypto.

Still, gamblers will gamble and the world will not crumble. Smokers will smoke nonetheless despite the bizarre photographic display of ailment befalling many cigarette users.

Reading people's bad experience sure helps one know exactly what is wanted in this life's pursuit. It does more than help one stay focused and be exact at the right time.

It is important to take a lesson from others experience and if you are not getting the basic points from others experience and initiate risky way then you cannot get advantageous results. Gambling is risky thing and I have examined that all gamblers have face troubles and they don't get what they want and they always loss their money so why we are also accepting this risky way even we know the reality.

Wise people will never enter into gambling and if one gambler is present in your family then you will learn from his defeat and will never enter into the same field but if you are unable to utilise your thinking power then there is a probability that you will follow this bad way and will ruin your life with your own hands. Always remember that those who cannot use their knowledge and are unable to get education as well as cannot continue their jobs will accept gambler because they think that it will provide them larger sum in shorter time but they don't know that this can also convert their larger sum into zero sum.

Not really a best way, but the best way is when we learn from our own mistakes or experiences. Reading someone else experience is a good addition after reading the basics in gambling and other information about it, so that we can minimize errors and get a decent experience even if we are only just a starter on it.

Those who share their testimonies can be an on going addict whose goal is to give awareness but I believe many of those who share are already cured. No one want's to get addicted because the effects of it are brutal. It's just that it can mostly occur because gambling is one of those activities where we can forget the consequences easily or we can easily get carried away by its goodness.

I dont believe it will help the gamblers at all, because their adrenaline at gambling has make them enjoy it in their heartbeat, they already know those bad experiences are the risk that they may experience by them self. having to risk something they have is a fun for many people, not only gamblers, but also anyone who like challenges.

I do believe it will help people who want to start gambling. those people need to know how gambling works on their life, how gamblers life goes. if they really want to start gambling, they will realize that they need to put limit of the risk they can afford.

My answer to your question is that, I do not believe that reading other people's experience either good or bad will help you. What I do believe though is that reading other people's bad experiences will make us create our own bad experience. It is very unavoidable. The gambling experience is dynamic and not static therefore we must have our story on either the gambling hall of fame or hall of shame. Whichever may be the case the learning experience is for us only.

It's like we know the risks, and the choice to continue or stop is a personal decision. Compared to smoking, I think it's more of a warning to addicts than it is to newbies. Previously, I had read statistics about the death rate caused by smoking, which had an impressive number, but it was not as much as other pressures from society such as traffic accidents, war,... But going back to the issue of reading about bad experiences, I myself have experienced those things, so I also realized the need to change my own life. I have come into contact with many people who are considered gambling addicts, and the real lesson is to watch their lives. Their relationships in society gradually deteriorate, and their own lives also have ups and downs, even worse is debt and trying to escape, there are even people who have to be punished in prison. So I don't want that to happen in my life, and I hope it doesn't happen in anyone else's life. But sometimes this life has an invisible fairness, and we don't know whether things get worse or change for the better, it's up to us to decide.

Warnings about the dangers of gambling can be found anywhere, especially in everyday environments. That's why the warnings that have been seen are bad for those who gamble, but they still carry out gambling activities, actually the warning is worse than cases that have occurred, for example: punishment, arrest and so on, but still gambling is gambling, cases are cases, it has no impact on them.

In other situations we can see it, especially in Muslim-majority countries, whatever negative advice is suggested, they still gamble, it is prohibited openly, they do it in secret, the point is that the bad experience has no effect on them. Likewise, smokers in the morning, the more warnings affixed to cigarette packs, the more people who smoke each day increase sharply.

People can easily carried away when in the middle of gambling. Even with a lot of topics about the problems/effects of gambling, people tend to take their own path to experience the good and bad in gambling. It's not that they won't apply it in their life, but they often forget about it due to their emotion.

The experience will make a person learn from their mistakes. Even with different precautions, people will never learn till the time come to experience the result of their action. When it happens, it's all about them on how they take action based on the experience of other people.

Reading about someone else's negative experience doesn't always help you avoid mistakes. If a person is very gambling, he or she will think that he or she is luckier than others and that he or she will be lucky, unlike others

We have to be confronted directly by the negative consequences of bad habits, otherwise we will only continue lying to ourselves in order to get what we want. This is why there are those disgusting and horrifying pictures on cigarette boxes. And the same would be good for all bad habits, including alcohol and gambling. But a lot of people would rather continue lying to themselves as long as they can get another hit of fake happiness.

Or perhaps I am just viewing the world in darker shades of gray today... 

Yes, I always pay attention to the bad experiences that others have had and shared because having knowledge in gambling is as important as gaining experience. Even though just reading and understanding the bad experiences of others is not directly equal to the experience I will gain myself, I think it has contributed to me.

For example, let's assume that a person consumes all his/her money due to gambling addiction then consumes his/her credit card limit and loses it again by borrowing money from his/her friend. Even though this is someone else's bad experience, the experience this person will tell will reduce my chances of making a similar mistake. In other words, instead of gaining expensive experience I will have an idea about the process with the information I can access.

As I mentioned, although a person learns what to do more easily through his/her own experiences, he/she can also create some rules for himself/herself by being informed about the bad experiences of someone else. For this reason I think that gaining knowledge of a bad event experienced by others will definitely be beneficial for me as well. This information will help you avoid possible mistakes and will also help you benefit from someone else's experience free of charge.

I was watching one show yesterday on how many days it will take for one to spend a billions. After the calculations, it's going to take one 27 years of his life to be spending $100k everyday for the rest of his life and if the person refuse to work, he can averagely live his life without doing anything for that amount. The essence the show was to tell you how much wealth people are gathering and still looking for more. They keep struggling for more even with what they have can sustain them for the rest of the their life.

It's just a natural thing for human to want more even when they had enough, the enough is never enough and that's exactly how gambling is also. They will keep playing and playing because there is no maximum satisfaction in making money but the moment you make a single lost, that's it; you will wake up from that state but the problem here is that some gamblers don't know when to stop, they will keep trying until they lose everything they already made.

To even think that people are been told to gamble for fun, they don't do that anymore and that's why I do tell people, no matter the regulations set on gambling, people will find a way to still do it because when there is money involved in a particular place, rules are always difficult to implement for such people, reason why we have addiction today and it's very disturb to see that we do ignore how people are addicted to gambling without we or government doing anything about it.

On a personal level, reading the bad experiences other people had in or with gambling will sure help me apply responsible gambling to all my gambling activities, as i believe, nobody wants or likes to make headline for an unfortunate incident, but we all will like to make headline for good stories.

This is actually an adage i think i have mentioned here on several occasions, but i am still going to say it again, and that is that, they say experience is the best teacher, but i say that, other people's experience is the perfect best teacher, for a wise man must not wait until something unfortunate happens to him before he learns, a wise man will pay attention and learn from what happened to other people.

So, for me, reading about other people's bad experiences will sure help me in organizing myself well to make sure that such a thing or something ever Worster than that, does not happen to me.

But on a general level, i do not think that such bad experiences will stop people from gambling.

I usually try to learn from mistakes that other people make because I don't want to learn on my own mistakes, I know that can cost a lot for me. So, in my experience, hearing of other people's bad experienced was something that probably made me to not get addicted to gambling and only gamble for fun but to be frank, I rarely gamble, only bet on UFC if anything.

Logically, when you see that if you smoke, you'll become like them who you see on images, you should feel scared and throw away your pack of cigarette but I have never seen anyone doing that, nor has the number of smokers decreased. To sum up, probably 99% of people only learn from their own mistakes and half of them even fail to learn from their own mistakes too if not repeated multiple times.

Yes, basically it's just an ordinary warning and it's true that sometimes people often feel curious about it and feel like they don't care either, everyone has the right to choose whether they want to continue or not even though they already know that the results will be bad or not good. Just consider the risks in gambling. , but if we don't experience it ourselves it might be difficult to believe in a warning.

Even though there are many facts that appear before our eyes or see the news on the internet where many failed gamblers become bankrupt because of gambling, let alone end their lives by killing themselves, of course we should be able to learn from someone's bad experiences in gambling because that can be our limit so that we don't out of bounds. Whether someone's bad experience helps or not depends on each person's point of view

I admit that this is somehow true, We tend to wait for something bad might happen before we take an action and decide what's the best for ourself. Actually even if there's a lot of topic here about preventions and safety measures about gambling, others may read it but they won't apply it in their life or they are having a hard time to absorb all information's that they learned. For me, it's better not to experience or we don't have to wait for some things to happen, avoid and prevent it as fast as possible.

i think it's the nature of humans. we wait for something tragic before we take action and sometimes its even too late before we do something to prevent it. the gamblers in the forum are very much aware of addiction but we are up to bet our coins thinking we could double the amount after.

when we win, we still aren't satisfied and once again we're up to continue betting. just like the smoker who knows it can cause lung cancer but there they are enjoying the smoke. yeap sometimes the bad experiences are not that helpful, it even ignites curiosity. but it sometimes serves as a warning for the fearful.

Hmm. It's true that gambling can affect someone financial status, but these individuals do really know it can crush them to zero if they got involved with it heavily, and when I say heavily it means addiction taking bet outside their financial capability.
Maybe because they think that we do have our own lives, stories from other people or experience from others does not necessarily mean that they have going the same fate, but with gambling there's just two way, winning and losing, comes at worst the losing streak and become addicted to regain their losses.
Definitely, some are not moved by other's stories unless it happened to them, not just with gambling specifically. Funny how they wanna experience some tragedy before realizing.